If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
War? War is an organized bore.
Imitation is a necessity of human nature.
The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.
The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.